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iPod Owners Not Thieves
An anonymous reader writes "Remember last year when Microsoft head Steve Ballmer said iPod owners were music thieves and their iPods were full of stolen music? It turns out they're actually less likely to download music using filesharing software than owners of other MP3 players. A lot less likely." From the article: "A survey of US and UK music buyers reveals that although 25 per cent of people admit to downloading music from file-sharing services, only seven per cent of iPod owners do so. Proving that iPod users are either scrupulously honest or more paranoid they'll get sued by RIAA than owners of lesser music players."
The iTunes music store eliminates what used to be a HUGE money hole for myself... hunting down import singles for B-sides. Moreso than other music services, iTunes has the obscure releases by the artists that I want, without having to pay an extra $15 a pop... none of which the artist will ever see. And the audio quality is far better than what I may have the off chance of finding off in the armpit of p2p.
Couple that with being able to download it, throw is on my iPod and go? It's easier than pirating. Other devices do it, but I like how iPod/iTunes works.
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Putting Bose in your first link destroyed all credibility :) Besides, if you go to the bose site, the only portable music product you find is a speaker dock for the iPod that puts the pod right in front of the speakers where any bass (if it had any) could shake the shit out of that little sucker (definitely what I have come to expect from bose.) That's not exactly competition...
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Since I am already a member of the Apple Fanboy List I can reply without fear of reprocussions.
.99 cents it takes to click a couple buttons and have the song right there in my iPod--and the quality is always the same.
I can honestly say that this is exactly why I use ITMS rather than P2P.
My time is more valuable than the
Quite honestly, I don't have time to hunt a P2P network for some obsure ass thing and then find out that it's 128bit and has a couple CD skipping noises in the middle of it. No thanks.
Now if I could just get the battery to charge correctly :-)
I have found with my 5G iPod (under Windows) that you must make sure that Windows is allowed to mount it as a mass storage device in iTunes. Otherwise it will not charge. Also, it will not charge if the battery is at more than about 80% capacity.
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And of course, the list would not be complete without mentioning that someday you might want to hear emergency messages broadcast via the Emergency Alert System.
Just because you don't listen to the radio, doesn't mean no one could have a reason to.
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Uh, the stock Apple earbuds are way cheaper than that, and the very nice in-ear headphones are $40. Every Apple store I've seen also sells the well-regarded Sony in-ear phones, for about $40.
So either they were out of stock (which is a problem that does not just happen in Apple stores) or you're making stuff up.
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I think I was invited to take part in it... at least I was invited to take part in a similar survey. I ran into a problem. On the very question of where my music comes from.
I had the choices, if I recall correctly, of "downloading from a file sharing service", "purchasing from an online music service", "ripping my own CDs", or "copying from my friends". There might have been a couple more, but you could see the idea they had. But there wasn't any option for "downloaded from artist's own website" or "purchased directly from artist". And since a good 20-30% of my music falls into those categories, I stopped there and sent mail asking for clarification.
No response. Survey form timed out. End of story.
I don't think so. Disposable income doesn't just mean that you have some cash sitting somewhere. It means that you are making more money than you need to spend. So while buying the iPod costs money, since the person has disposable income their next paycheck gives them another surplus of money. In this scenario, they can use that money to legally buy music.
It is a very nice problem to have.
Actually, there isn't that much doubt, but surprisingly not in the direction you think.
Information here, I'll quote the good bits:
http://www.museekster.com/allofmp3faq.htm
That subsection, (a) (2), is pretty clear; as long as its for your own use, and you only have one copy, its legal.
Keep in mind the way American law works. 1) It is copying of copyright works that is illegal, not possession. 2) Allofmp3 violates no Russian laws. 3) Either there is no regulation at all regarding importation of music, or the above listed regulation specifying that personal use = not infringing applies.
This isn't legal advice, obviously. A U.S. court could see it differently, and until there is legal precedent, god knows how a judge will rule. But its definitely not the open and shut "Allofmp3.com violates U.S. copyright law".
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My 40GB iRiver (H340) was cheaper per GB than a 30GB iPod.
They surveyed people who bought music online, not a random sample of mp3 player owners. This doesn't take into account people who only copy music illegally.
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iPod has an excellent interface, try getting that on an iRiver.
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Well most talk radio is on AM radio, so FM typically doesn't help.
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Anyways. I have two MP3 players, a iRiver thingy and a Nano.
I barely use the iRiver, even though it has FM radio and all those other shinies. Why? Because I never used them anyways.
On the other hand its possible to get a seperate FM/AM radio for pretty cheap:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-u
It also can't play a single one of the ~20GB of FLAC files on my hard drive. AFAIK, the only player that can without a FW hack is the Rio Karma. The playback of FLAC Audio files requires the use of a floating-point processor in the player ,which computers have had since the Intel 80486DX but most portables do not since MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC does not require it. It adds cost to add the FPU to the embedded chip, so FLAC (and Ogg Vorbis) support has been slow.
But ya know what? It's what I want and I'd never get a player that does not support the format. And before you say "Why don't you just re-encode to MP3 like everybody else," I use the format because it is of excellent quality, you can get the codecs for nothing (no licensing fees), you'll always be able to find some player or plugin to play it, and it does not have DRM.
Just "gittin-r-done," day after day.
Funny... those are the exact reasons I use Apple Lossless, and somehow it's a lot easier to find compatible high-quality players. Yes, I know Apple could theoretically decide to start charging for future codec software. If they do, which would be stupid on their part, I'll just reencode to AIFF using the last free version and then go encode to FLAC somewhere else.
And, anyway, why do we need lossless for portable players? So far, they don't hook up to SPDIF... their DACs and line-out amps are not of sufficient quality for the difference between lossless and 256Kbps {mp3,aac} to matter, and if they were, listening on the subway, the sidewalk or the airplane isn't going to reveal that.
(Funny exception: for some strange reason the lowly iPod shuffle seems to have audio componentry that far outclasses the other players out there. No one knows why.)